Colonel Francis Charteris

Background

A real 'gentleman rake'. Cashiered from the army 4 times, the third time by the Duke of Marlborough in person and the final time at the Bar of the House of Commons. Slept with other people's wives and despoiled innumerable virgins. Gambled faultlessly and loaned money at an extortionate rate to those he had fleeced. At the age of 70 he was sentenced to death for the rape of a serving girl (his daughter wrote in despair that "if a man must do wrong, then he could aim a little higher"), but was reprieved.

On his deathbed he offered £30,000 to anyone who could catagorically disprove the existance of Hell. He was visited by a Ventrue, desperate for the money, who explained that while he didn't know the answer to Charteris' question, he could ensure the the Colonel never got the chance to find out either.

Since then, to the disgust of many of the 'old school' Ventrue, the Colonel has gone from riches to riches and strength to strength. While he found the Victorian era unutterably dull, modern times have proved much more to his tastes. He has travelled across Europe and America and is one of the very few Ventrue Elders who is regularly run out of the fiefs he visits by their enraged Princes. He has visited York several times over the years. He finds it helpful to maintain at least one fief which he can retreat to in times of trouble. If he called anywhere home, it would be here.

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The Colonel is deeply charming, especially to women. He has an almost magical way of putting people at their ease, to the extent that people who have known him for quite some time can be persuaded to play cards with him. However, he also knows probably the largest collection of dirty jokes in the world and has an amazingly evil cackle.

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